Science SCOPE and SEQUENCE
1st Grading Period
Into to Science
- safety and tools (taught throughout the year)
- set up science journal
Space
- describe and illustrate the Sun
- Sun, Earth, and Moon system models
- Identify planets in the Solar System and their position in relation to the Sun
Matter: Properties and Change
- measure, test, and record physical properties of matter
- describe and classify solids, liquids, and gases
- changes in states of matter
2nd Grading Period
Matter: Mixtures
- explore and recognize mixtures created when two or more materials are combined
Exploring Forces
- demonstrate and observe how position and motion is changed by pushing and pulling
- magnetism and gravity acting on objects
Rapid Changes to Earth's Surface
- earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and landslides
3rd Grading Period
Environments: Characteristics, Flow of Energy, and Changes
- physical characteristics and how they support populations and communities
- effects of changes to the environment
- food chains and how changes affect the ecosystem
Organisms: Life Cycles
- investigate and compare life cycle changes such as frogs, beetles, and plants
Organisms: Structures and Functions
- explore plant and animal structures and functions to survive in an environment
4th Grading Period
Organisms: Structures and Functions (continued)
- explore plant and animal structures and functions to survive in an environment
Formation of Soil
- formed by weathering of rock and decomposition of organic matter
- review characteristics - texture, color, particle size
Natural Resources
- characteristics and uses of resources
- conservation of resources
Energy Sources
- identify and discuss how different forms of energy are important to everyday life
- thermal/heat energy, light energy, sound energy, mechanical energy
Weather
- measure, record, and compare day-to-day weather changes
- air temperature, wind, precipitatio